Supermodel/actress Angie Everhart, Firestone High ’87, is taking her talents to the links.
Her dad, Bobby Everhart, reports that she and three others — chef Mario Batali, former boxer Sugar Ray Leonard and Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine — hooked up a couple of weeks ago to start taping the next season of The Haney Project for the Golf Channel.
If you follow golf at all, you’re probably familiar with Hank Haney. A former coach for Tiger Woods, Haney can teach anyone on the planet how to fix his or her swing and shave a bundle of strokes.
Well, everybody except Charles Barkley, who still looks as if he’s having a seizure during every swing.
The first episode airs Feb. 27.
Bobby Everhart, chief design engineer for the Ohio Department of Transportation before becoming a high-powered consultant, is an avid golfer who joined his daughter at the taping and would love to have gotten a tip or two. But he underwent rotator-cuff surgery in December and will be on the shelf for a while.
Nevertheless, Bobby will get some face time in Episodes 1 and 5.
I’d wager that a lot more viewers will be paying attention to his daughter’s face.
Feast or famine
The other day we shared the story of Jerry E. Caplinger, who asked an ATM for $200 but received only a receipt. Eighteen days passed before the owner of the machine, Charter One, straightened things out with his credit union, whose card he had used.
Once the error was finally fixed, it was fixed too well.
Caplinger found himself with two credits for $200, one from Charter One and one from the credit union.
If you’re guessing the second error was corrected much faster than the first — say, fast enough to trigger a sonic boom — bingo.
Name games
A colleague points out that Fairlawn’s new fire chief has the perfect name for the job: Russ Hose.
Semi-secret message
Bob: I hope you can stand another license-plate story.
Several years ago, I went in for a new plate, no vanity, just whatever came up. Neither the clerk nor I paid any attention to the number.
On the way home, I decided to start memorizing the number. I looked down at it on the seat next to me and cracked up. There would be no trouble remembering it.
It was “ASK 469.”
Had anybody requested such a thing, I’m sure they would have been denied. More amazing, it was a full year before anyone noticed — except, maybe, for some very friendly truckers who passed me on the freeway.
Sue Manges
Fairlawn
Style critic
Widespread news reports about the sinking of the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia kept picking away at a pet peeve of reader Mark A. Miller of Plain Township. Eventually, Miller grew sufficiently annoyed to place fingers on keyboard.
“They all talk about the ship ‘sailing’ from some port or ‘sailing’ along the coast before hitting the rocks,” he writes.
Miller finds that terminology objectionable for the same reason he objects to another common description, ships “steaming” from one place to another.
“Most ships are now powered by diesel or diesel electric engines or, in the case of some of the US Navy ships, even nuclear power, which turn very large propellers, called ‘screws.’
“Ships should be said to be ‘screwing’ along the coast, or ‘screwing’ out of the port. ...
“I think I’ll propose this change to the Associated Press and other news agencies in the interest of more accurate reporting.”
Well, Mark, you are correct about the demise of sail and steam. But I’m not sure the arbiters of mainstream media language would encourage descriptions of a cruise ship “screwing across the ocean” — with the possible exception of The Love Boat.
Bob Dyer can be reached at 330-996-3580 or bdyer@thebeaconjournal.com.